Park Seed Garden Journal

This past weekend I helped my dad build a couple of raised garden beds for his tomatoes and peppers. We finished pouring in the topsoil and peat just as it was getting dark, and he asks, "How many more should I build?" Of course, I suggested that we just go ahead and plant his tomatoes and peppers and build more on another day– he never stops working. He purchased mature tomato plants that will be producing fruit within a couple weeks, beefsteak and cherry varieties.

Buying the plant is a great idea, but it’s so easy it feels like cheating. The mature plant is inexpensive, and you don’t have to worry about when to start your seeds or when it is safe to move your seedlings outdoors. I prefer starting from seed, myself, you can get many more plants, and you have more options, but I can understand avoiding the hassle. Also, if it is late in the spring, like now, and you decide you want to grow tomatoes, you still can if you buy the plants instead of seed.

Park Seed is having a great sale on a couple of their most popular Tomato varieties. If you would like to try them for your self: Park’s Whopper and Tomato Plant Beefy Boy